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Originally Posted by Fuzzybear
A good friend has a severe ear infection. I used to have those a lot. I was told to keep my ears dry, I still do. I try to avoid having to consult doctors as much as I can. I did consult a good ENT doctor, fortunately. I had to keep going back and having my ear cleaned out by the specialist and he said it was a ''chronic'' infection. I had to use ear drops for a long time. (prescribed) Fortunately after a year (?) it cleared up. He said I had ''eczema in my ear canal''  It was ''my fault'' since I used to wash my hair every day and my ears got waterlogged..... |
Like fern wrote, that sounds like an unfair (and possibly inaccurate) thing for your ENT to say to you. A lot of people have issues with clogged ears. My dad does. I do. I know others who do. I can't speak for the causes of everyone's clogged ears, but mine has nothing to do with getting water in them, nor does it have to do with me cleaning them incorrectly. I just so happen to have a larger/quicker production of earwax than many other people. It just clogs up because of that. I've had to have the gunk vacuumed out several times. It all started when I was a little kid. That time it went unchecked for too long and my ears did get infected.